[oe] Usage of NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Enrico Scholz <
enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/Legacy_staging states that
> NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS must be set when there is a non trivial
> do_install() function and BBCLASSEXTEND is used.
>
> But
>
> | git grep NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS conf/ classes/ lib/
>
> shows only one place where this variable is evaluated:
>
> | classes/staging.bbclass:    elif bb.data.getVar('NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS',
> d, 1) == "1":
> | classes/staging.bbclass-        legacy = False
>
> And there, it is used only in the is_legacy_staging() function, to
> override legacy/non-legacy detection results.
>
>
> Is there still any use for this variable in modern staging?  Or shall it
> be purged from non-legacy recipes?


If you purge it from particular non-legacy recipes, the legacy detection
code will misidentify those as legacy and fail to do the correct thing.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics